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Pontchartrain Rail-Road was the first railway in New Orleans, Louisiana. Chartered in 1830, the railroad began carrying people and goods between the Mississippi River front and Lake Pontchartrain on 23 April 1831. It closed more than a hundred years later.
Illinois Central Railroad: Louisiana Nickel Plate Railway: 1908 N/A Louisiana North and South Railroad: 1885 1890 Louisiana and North West Railroad: Louisiana and Pacific Railway: 1904 1926 N/A Louisiana Southern Railway: LSO SOU: 1897 1993 Alabama Great Southern Railroad: Louisiana Western Railroad: LW SP: 1878 1934 Texas and New Orleans Railroad
The main line was New Orleans to Bohemia, Louisiana, about 50 miles. [5] However, the line had total trackage of 65.1 miles by the early 1920s. [ 6 ] The line was leased to the New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway , operated by the Gulf Coast Lines , on February 1, 1911; [ 5 ] but, the National Railway Labor Board ruled in the 1920s that the ...
The Acadiana Railway Company (reporting mark AKDN) is a short line railroad based in Opelousas, Louisiana. It operates on the following trackage: Crowley–Eunice, 21.6 miles (34.8 km) by trackage rights on property of the Union Pacific Railroad, Eunice–Opelousas, 20.9 miles (33.6 km) Opelousas–Bunkie, Louisiana, 36.1 miles (58.1 km)
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Amtrak station in Hammond, Louisiana, refurbished with a passenger platform along the original path of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Part of the original route of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern, still operational in the Canadian National Railway line at this railroad crossing in Hammond, Louisiana. 1862 3-dollar note issued by New Orleans Jackson & Great Northern ...
The Louisiana & Delta's only surviving ATSF CF7 locomotive, formerly LDRR 1500. The Louisiana and Delta Railroad (reporting mark LDRR) is a short-line railroad headquartered in New Iberia, Louisiana. LDRR operates over 114 miles of branch line in southern Louisiana between Lafayette, Louisiana and Raceland, Louisiana, with most of the lines ...
The Norfolk Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge is a rolling lift trunnion bridge that carries a single-track of Norfolk Southern rail line over Lake Pontchartrain between Slidell and New Orleans, Louisiana, parallel to the Maestri Bridge [2] At 5.8 miles (9.3 km) long, it is the longest railroad bridge in the United States and the longest rail bridge over water in the world.